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[โ€“] chaos@beehaw.org 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yup. I had an iPhone 6S that was affected by this. When the battery was starting to get older, things like opening the camera would sometimes just cause the phone to die. I got the battery replaced for free, but flipping it to throttle instead of randomly shut itself down was an improvement, and likely extended the usable lives of the affected phones, not artificially shorten them. It shouldn't have been done secretly but it wasn't a conspiracy to sell more iPhones.

[โ€“] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It shouldnโ€™t have been done secretly but it wasnโ€™t a conspiracy to sell more iPhones

If they weren't trying to sell more phones they'd have given you a notification with instructions to replace the battery and designed it in a way that a person with no special skills could do so instead of just crippling the device.

[โ€“] chaos@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago

I mean, yeah, I said they should've told people, that was a bad decision on their part. I'm just saying if it was a conspiracy to sell more iPhones, it was a dumb one, because the net effect was to make the phone more usable. It wasn't crippled, certainly not more than "this thing just shuts down when the camera is opened sometimes."